Issue with authentication using Chrome

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I’ll try to explain what’s happening. Hope it makes sense…
This is the second time I have to deal with this issue.

1 - If I want to add a Gmail account to Mail app, Mail tries to log into my gmail account via Chrome, which is my default browser, but it doesn’t. It opens Chrome, but then it doesn’t do anything. When I try to go back to Mail, it quickly flashes it, but goes back to the previous open app (Chrome, for example). The solution is to quit Chrome completely, change the default browser to Safari, do it again, authenticate, then revert back to Chrome as the default.

2 - I installed the Boombox app, it asks me to log in. When I click the log in button, same thing happens.

When I asked ChatGPT what was going on, it mentioned a lot of stuff I have no clue what it means. Related to Auth-something…

Can someone explain what the issue is and how to solve it? I don’t want to keep changing the default browser, and if I have a lot of windows opened in Chrome, I don’t want to lose them or having to bookmark them before I quit Chrome.

Thanks!

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I’ve noticed that if I am already logged into Gmail then authenticating to mail.app or another app using Google service is easy. So I have three profiles in Chrome, one for my paid Google Workspace account, that I use for Google Workspace, one for my free Gmail account that I use to log into YouTube Premium, and a third profile that isn’t logged in to anything,

I’d log into Google then try to login to Mail.app again. If that solves your problem you can log out or create a second profile that is not logged into Google.